or Tories, as they are generally called now, was quite small, I soon found that the proposed arti- cle would necessarily be a very brief one, owing to the scanty records that were accessible to me at that time, and I partially gave up the project and laid aside what I had prepared, uncertain whether

an impressive expression of a people's belief in a government organized on the basis of the Common Law. We celebrate tonight the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the granting of a Charter to the borough of Lancaster. What is a Charter? It is an instru- ment for permitting and encouraging the free

, 1833-1921. Other Author(s): Ellmaker, Amos, 1787-1851. Title: Politics 75 years ago / F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt. D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Ellmaker, Amos, 1787-1851. Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. United States--Politics and government--1783-1865. Publisher

dealing with the subject in a paper of reasonable length. there- fore,decided to take up but a single one of these men, and have chosen one who was born in this county, and whose ca- reer was perhaps as notable as that of any other. He was not a politician, like Joseph Galloway, who is, perhaps, the best

ranking among the most gigantic of all in the United States, and therefore in the whole world. Our story concerns only our own county. But let us take a glimpse or two into the dim past. One of the first references to the "post" or post office is found in the Bible. In the eighth chapter and tenth verse

Clockmaker's Company of London, and advertised this clock extensively �in "Commonwealth Mercury," a newspaper of London, on November 25, 1661. A picture of a Fromanteel clock in appearance is almost an exact counterpart of most of our Lancaster County grandfather clocks, which were first made in this county

: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833-1921. Title: The Wabank House : the story of a Lancaster County summer resort / by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Wabank House (Lancaster, Pa.) Historic buildings--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Resorts--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster